This is a great time to improve your legal writing skills! Employers consistently report that they look to hire students with strong writing abilities. Do you want to improve your skills? Do you want to polish an assignment you can use as a writing sample for summer or articling positions? Do you need help with writing assignments in school or need a better process to approach writing projects in a more systematic way?

The Faculty’s Writing Leaders can help!

Writing Leaders are trained peer mentors who give advice on:

• Techniques for kick-starting the writing process
• Structuring your legal writing
• Strengthening your legal analysis
• Writing with clarity
• Becoming a better self-editor

Writing conferences are open to students in all years. You can bring a work-in-progress, or simply schedule an appointment to learn more about legal writing.

Go to the Legal Research and Writing Student Resources page on Brightspace and scroll down to the “Writing Conferences” tab for more information or to schedule a conference. Questions? Email Professor Long.

Great lawyers are great writers! Employers consistently tell us they seek to hire students with excellent legal writing skills. In addition, employers are looking for students with strong leadership and soft skills to excel in the workplace. The Legal Writing Academy Portfolio and Leadership Program can help you develop both essential skills!

You’ll produce high quality legal writing to showcase to future employers and learn how to mentor other students to become better writers. Students who successfully complete the course will be eligible to become paid Writing Leaders during the academic year. This link is your path to more information, including dates, deadlines, and the application form.

The deadline to apply is April 17, 2026 at 5:00pm. For more information please contact Professor Long: [email protected]

Great lawyers are great writers! Employers consistently tell us they seek to hire students with excellent legal writing skills. Writing well means that you’ll be able to communicate more effectively both in the office, with clients, and in the courtroom.

Designed to fit your summer work schedule. Work at your own pace to write and edit a legal memo guided by structured, online pass-fail assignments that take 3-10 hours a week to complete. The professor supports your summer work with feedback, check-in meetings, an editing class, and an individual meeting before you submit your graded memo. This link is your path to more information, including dates, deadlines, and the application form.

The deadline to apply is April 30, 2026 at 5:00pm. For more information please contact Professor Long: [email protected]

The Dean’s Research and Writing Fellows Program is a unique and challenging opportunity open to high-achieving upper-year students with strong research and writing skills, demonstrated leadership abilities, and a keen interest in mentoring 1L students.

In the winter term students will undertake an intensive research and writing project in Winter 2027 either with an outside organization or as a directed research project. 

In the fall and winter terms students will also lead legal research and citation workshops for 1L students in CML1101, as well as assist with grading.

This course can satisfy the major paper requirement.

This link is your path to more information, including dates, deadlines, and the application form.

The deadline to apply is May 29, 2026 at 5:00pm. 

For more information please contact Professor Long: [email protected]

We invite you to inform us of any positions you have secured for Summer 2026 or the 2026-2027 articling term. You can share your updates with us at [email protected].

University of Ottawa Community Legal Clinic has expanded their FREE DROP-IN NOTARIAL SERVICES – Every Wednesday and Thursday 12:00pm to 1:00pm | Clinic Main office: 540 King Edward Avenue

 (until April 30, 2026)

Will you be seeking a 2027-2028 articling position? Structured recruitment application deadlines across the country are this Spring! Be sure to look up the Articling Search Strategies for the 2027-2028 Recruitment Process, available in The Source document library.

Will you be seeking a 2L Summer 2027 position in Toronto, Calgary or Vancouver? Structured recruitment application deadlines for these markets are this Summer! Be sure to consult The Source for recruitment events hosted by firms this summer, information sessions and upcoming guides that be available in The Source document library 4-6 weeks prior to application deadlines.

Are you interested in sharpening your research skills and building your profile in migration and refugee law while reaching a broad professional community? The Chair on Migrant Protection and International Law invites undergraduate and graduate students in law and social sciences to contribute blog articles on migrant protection issues. Whether it's a commentary on a recent policy change, a comparative analysis across jurisdictions, a critique of a judicial decision, or reflections from field experience – the Chair wants to hear from you. 

All submissions will be reviewed by the Chair's research team and assessed on clarity, originality, analytical rigor, and relevance to the Chair’s themes of research. Selected pieces will be edited in consultation with authors and published on the Chair’s blog with full author attribution.

Students are encouraged to write about themes that resonate with the Chair’s research streams and objectives:

1. Canadian asylum and temporary migration policy transformations
2. Canada's international commitments vs. domestic practice
3. Comparative perspectives

To submit: send your full draft by e-mail to [email protected] with your name and study program included. Submissions can be made in English or French — 1,000–1,500 words, in a Word doc, 12 pt Times New Roman, double-spaced, with a consistent citation style (APA, MLA or Chicago). 

For more inquiries, contact [email protected]

The Admissions & Recruitment Office is looking for a JD student to join our team this summer as a communications assistant. If you're creative, enthusiastic, and want to make a real impact on how prospective students experience uOttawa Law — this opportunity is for you!

How to apply?

Apply through uoZone via the Work-Study Program. For more information, reach out to us at [email protected].

Please consult the availabilities for the month of April on the Common Law Student Centre webpage under the section “Resources and Useful Links”.

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As you prepare for the winter exam period, please note that the 600 King Edward Ave. building may serve as an alternative location if you are looking for a quiet place to study.  

Students who have requested an access card for this building (new card, replacement card, or extension requests) during the academic year and have not yet collected it up are invited to visit the Common Law Student Centre (FTX237) to collect it. Please note that, the card grants access to the building for the duration of your studies at the Faculty of Law.  

Graduating students must ensure that they return their access cards to 600 King Edward Ave. at the Common Law Student Centre (FTX237), as they will be deactivated as of April 30, 2026. As a reminder, the access cards remain the property of the University of Ottawa and must be returned prior to graduation. 

Please note that the information regarding which courses will be offered are posted on the Featured Course webpage.

Students may allocate credits earned from these courses to either the Fall 2026 term or the Winter 2027 term. Summer credits allocated to Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 will be included in regular full-time tuition, with no additional fees.

Students are not permitted to exceed the full-time course load, even if they complete coursework over the summer. For example, if a student completes 3 summer credits and applies them to Fall 2026, they may enrol in 4 additional courses (12 credits), for a total of 15 credits. As a reminder, a regular full-time course load consists of 5 courses (15 credits) for the Fall, 1 course (3 credits) for January, and 4 courses (12 credits) for the Winter.

Students may take up to 2 summer courses (6 credits), including any combination of courses, internships, Student-Proposed Internships (SPIs), or other for-credit academic activities. If a student enrols in 6 summer credits, they must allocate them evenly—3 credits to Fall and 3 credits to Winter (not January).

We wish you all the best for the last weeks of the winter term and the planification of your summer months.

Note that these courses are only offered in English. 

The use of the Examplify software for exams is possible in selected courses. Please verify the exam timetables to know if your final exam will offer this option. 

To prepare for the upcoming exam period, please ensure that Examplify is installed, up-to-date, and tested well in advance.

Key Steps:

• New Installation: If Examplify is not yet installed, download it from the Faculty’s ExamSoft portal using your uoZone login credentials.
• Upgrade Existing Examplify Installation: If Examplify is already on your laptop, launch the app and complete any available upgrades.
• Run Practice Exams: Complete mock exams to confirm Examplify is working on your device. This step is essential for troubleshooting and getting familiar with the software.
• Register: After testing Examplify, complete the Examplify Registration Form to authorize the $57 CAD annual licensing fee.

Please review the information available on the Exams webpage for further details. 

Students who wish to participate in the Winter Access/Equity Tutorials, including those who were enrolled last term, must fill out an application form.

NEW for the Winter term! We are also accepting Access/Equity tutorial applications from students who may have received a low mid-term mark in a given course. If you are applying to a particular tutorial on the basis of having received a low mid-term grade, you must indicate the grade you received on the application form.

Registration began on March 1st, 2026!

The University of Ottawa Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) and the Canadian Red Cross are pleased to announce the 2026 Summer School on International Humanitarian Law (IHL), to be held May 31st to June 5th, 2026.

The goal of this course is to provide students and professionals with the fundamentals of IHL and the opportunity to apply this knowledge through realistic case studies and a full-day simulation exercise.

The course is offered in both French and English, and enrolment is limited to 30 students per language group.

Interested students (under certain conditions) can take this course for credit (DRC4521), but please note that you must first register with us and send us your CV and an unofficial transcript of your grades.

The registration form is now available on the Summer School webpage where you will find all the details!